In all our sanctuaries we sit at risk

Category: Democracy

  • Regarding Grendel

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    Footnote : Grendel is the name of a monster who appears in an Anglo-Saxon ‘epic’ called ‘Beowulf’. The poet Seamus Heaney is one of several people who have translated it into modern English. Heaney’s introduction is worth reading and gives his thoughts on what the long Beowulf saga is suggesting, or why it is still…

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  • Complaint to the Pilot

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    The lines quoted above come from a book-length poem by Cahit Koytak, a distinguished Turkish poet. In Turkish, the poem is called ‘Gazze Risalesi’ and addresses two Josephs in turn, one a Palestinian boy exposed to the bombing of Gaza, and the other an Israeli young man, a bomber pilot. Cahit Koytak talks to them…

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